Gall Synonyms and Antonyms

gôl
*Impudence
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bile
  2. effrontery
  3. rudeness
  4. insolence
  5. impertinence
  6. temerity
  7. assumption
  8. audaciousness
  9. audacity
  10. boldness
  11. brashness
  12. brazenness
  13. cheek
  14. cheekiness
  15. chutzpah
  16. discourtesy
  17. disrespect
  18. face
  19. familiarity
  20. forwardness
  21. impudence
  22. impudency
  23. saddle-sore
  24. incivility
  25. nerve
  26. nerviness
  27. overconfidence
  28. pertness
  29. presumptuousness
  30. pushiness
  31. sassiness
  32. sauciness
  33. brass
  34. crust
  35. sauce
  36. uppishness
  37. uppityness
To make (the skin) raw by or as if by friction
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chafe
  2. fret
  3. abrade
  4. excoriate
  5. irritate
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. annoying

Words Related to Gall

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Gall Sentence Examples

  • By this means a gall is produced on the under side of the leaf.

  • How did men have the gall to criticize women for being talkative?

  • This virus causes the rapid enlargement and subdivision of the cells affected by it, so as to form the tissues of the gall.

  • Again, galls may afford harbour to insects which are not essentially gall-feeders, as in the case of the Curculio beetle Conotrachelius nenuphar, Hbst., of which one brood eats the fleshy part of the plum and peach, and another lives in the " black knot " of the plum-tree, regarded by Walsh as probably a true cecidomyidous gall.

  • As regards the mode of production of galls, the most important distinction is between galls that result from the introduction of an egg, or other matter, into the interior of the plant, and those that are due to an agent acting externally, the gall in the latter case frequently growing in such a manner as ultimately to enclose its producers.

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